Contract SQL jobs in the UK
Live UK IT contracts — day-rate and fixed-term roles detected on employer careers pages, updated hourly.
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We are currently tracking 9 live vacancies matching contract SQL jobs in the UK, advertised by 8 different employers. The most active employers in this slice are Torquepartnership, Wearemarmion, Parker Shaw and Limestreetsearch. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.
Too few of these roles publish a salary for a reliable benchmark. Where a figure is quoted it appears on the listing, and contract day rates are annualised so they can be compared against permanent salaries.
On working pattern, 33% are fully remote, 33% are hybrid and 100% are contract rather than permanent. By seniority, 56% at mid level and 22% at lead or principal level. Filter by any of these on the left.
Senior Database Administrator – Contract (Inside IR35) | Waracle Ltd.
Integration QA Engineer
Lead IT Infrastructure Engineer
Technical Project Manager (Contract)
SEO Data Analyst (Contract)
Participates in government oversight of contractor software development activities.
SC Cleared Desktop Engineer – Contract
Python Data Engineer - Lime Street Search
Senior Data Engineer (SAS) · Parker Shaw
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many contract SQL jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 9 live vacancies across 8 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.
Can these roles be done remotely?
33% are advertised as fully remote and 33% as hybrid. The rest are on-site or do not say — where an employer is silent we leave it blank rather than guessing.
Which employers are hiring?
The most active right now are Torquepartnership, Wearemarmion, Parker Shaw, Limestreetsearch and Nccgroupplc. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.
Can you work from home as a SQL developer in the UK?
6 of the 9 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 3 fully remote and 3 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.
Are there entry-level or graduate SQL developer jobs in the UK?
Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as SC Cleared Desktop Engineer – Contract, Participates in government oversight of contractor software development activities., SEO Data Analyst (Contract), Technical Project Manager (Contract) and Senior Data Engineer (SAS) · Parker Shaw. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
How much experience do these roles need?
The largest group is mid level (56% of the page). Seniority is read from the job title, so a role that does not signal a level in its title is counted as mid-level.